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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday july 9, 1959 Bill would revive Security plan voided by supreme court Washington up chairman Francis e. Walter Dpn of the House committee on in american activities has introduced a Bill to revive the Industrial Security program struck Down by the supreme court. Walter said his committee would hold hearings on the measure which would provide the specific authority for the program which the High court said was lacking. It Ouldhouse vetoes High court of confession bar Washington a the House in another slap at the supreme court voted to overcome Acourt ruling outlawing use of confessions in Federal criminal trials if there has been unnecessary delay Between arrest and arraign ment. The Roll Call vote of 262-138 marked the second time in As Many years the House has passed a Bill to reverse the effect of the High court s decision in what is known As the Mallory Case. Earlier Bill voting for the Bill were 140 democrats and 122  it were 121 democrats and 17 republicans. The Bill now goes to the Senate which passed similar legislation last year. Last year s Bill got entangled however in the adjourn ment Rush and failed of final enactment when the Senate refuse to approve a Senate House com Promise version. Sponsors argued that it was needed not Only to convict the guilty but to protect the innocent. Mallory Case the Mallory Case was cite throughout the debate. In that Case Andrew Mallory was sentenced to die in a District of Columbia Federal court after confession to rape. The supreme court reversed the conviction on grounds Mallory had been subjected to unnecessary delay Between arrest and arraign ment. The House Bill states specifically that confessions May not be ruled inadmissible in Federal court merely because there had been a delay in taking an arrested person before a commissioner or other  sex attorney admits theft Marion ind. A Julian Lett 63, former Marion business Man pleaded guilty As his trial opened of charges of embezzling  from the Indiana masonic Home foundation. Special judge Oliver l. Wheatley set aug. 3 for sentencing. T Lett his wife two daughters i and six friends took the witness stand in a plea for  former Marion City attorney Lett said All the embezzled Money was poured into his appliance store Juji a fruitless Effort to save it from bankruptcy. The testified the masonic Home to Franklin ind.,� already has received $250,000 in a civil suit that resulted in putting his appliance9 Typo receivership.5 sold his Home for $25,000a, Lett said and he expressed i tence that All the missing Money would be repaid Phio editor in new Job 4 Bayton Ohio up Glenn Hompson 54, former executive editor of the Cincinnati enquirer a Kay named editor of the. Dayton Ifo Virnal Jerald of the Cox take the form of an amendment to the 1950 subversive activities control act. The court ruled 8-1 last monday in its final session of the 1958-59 term that neither Congress nor the president specifically had authorized the program. Designed to keep subversives out of defens plants it covered about 3 million workers. Walter said his Bill would meet the problem by giving the defens Secretary congressional authority to establish the program and there by safeguard our Industrial establishments without disclosing in formation injurious to our  Ike orders study president Eisenhower ordered a government study of the problem immediately after the court handed Down its decision. But there has been no final word on whether the administration will offer Legisla Tion or leave the matter in the hands of Congress. The supreme court s chief com plaint against the Security program was that alleged Security risks were denied the same right to confront their accuser which prevails in Ordinary trials. Under the program the defense department could Force the dismissal of Security risks. The justices emphasized How Ever that they were not ruling on the constitutionality of any future program set up by Congress Orthe president. But several of them indicated they might want to take a close look at any such program. Singing in the rain outdoor opera has its problems but when show ers arrived during a dres rehearsal at the Santee n.m., open air theater director Patton Camp Bell simply hoisted an umbrella and said on with the show As he gave instructions from his seat inthe orchestra Section. Dpi photo negroes Ash Congress Aid on voting by North american newspaper Alliance Washington negroes in Tuskegee ala., have asked con Gress to set up a new Federal com Mission that could Register Quali fied persons to vote in counties where the Board of registrars has been inoperative for go Days or More. Their aim is to open up the Opportunity to vote to residents of Macon county ala., where the Board has been vacant since dec.10, 1958, because of resignation of its members. Keeping defense ears on the Ball somewhat resembling a flying Saucer this object is an inflatable radome a kind of ear Muff to keep Sand Iee wind dust and Snow out of the big ears of listening Post War antennae. Built by con Vair the radomes12 to 18 feet to diameter Tare designed like huge Flat bottomed balloons the  can withstand 100-Mph winds. This radome is attached to a circular Concrete pad. A trap door right is Entrance to Tunnel leading through pressurized lock to in Side of radome the valve near door controls air Blower. Ufa photo / \ in recent months the depart ment of Justice has been rebuffed by two Federal courts in its efforts to bring court action against the resigned Macon county registrar Sand against the state of Alabama to compel the appointment of new registrars. District judge fran Johnson ruled against the depart ment in this Case and he was unanimously upheld by the fifth court of appeals Powell is sponsor a Bill calling for the creation of a Federal voter registration com Mission was drafted by the Tuske gee civic Assn. It was sent to  Clayton Powell  introduced it. And it has been referred to the committee on House administration which handles legislation relating to fed eral elections. In a letter to Powell William , Secretary of the Tuskegee association said the Bill is pro posed because events at the stat level Are not at All  the association Mitchell wrote has tried without Success to get new registrars appointed. It has written letters it has petitioned gov. John Patterson and it has Washington wore dentures of elks Teeth for portrait new York up George Washington really had a Mouthful when he sat for his famed portrait by Charles Willson Peale Accord ing to dental times the dentures apparently were made of elks Teeth filed Down an embedded in Lead Alloy. The publication quoted or. B. H. Weinberger a s c on c de i n g in his history of dentistry in America that How Washington could have worn these is a  Weinberger added it is More than Likely that the Teeth were used Only at the time Peale painted Washington so that the e Mouth might assume a More natural  most of the first president s dental work the article continued was done by John Greenwood Pioneer new York dentist who also fashioned at least one full upper and lower Den t u r e for Washington from Hippopotamus Ivory asked for an appointment with the governor according to Mitchell. We Are constantly told Sai Mitchell that the matter of voter registration is governed by state Law. As matters now stand this incorrect. Realizing that past events at Testate level Are not at All encouraging we Are seeking what we sincerely believe to be the Only real solution a Federal 1 a w based on the authority of article one Section four and on Section two of the 15th amendment to the Constitution of the United  the proposed commission  Only Check with subpoena Power on local situations in which there had been no voting registration Board for 60 Days or More but it could provide for the registration of qualified persons. It is set out in the Bill that in any registration provided by the commis Sion no literacy test nor the pay ment of any tax shall be used in determining qualifications. It is proposed too that the new commission would have the right to probe sworn complaints of denial of voting rights because of race or color. And if the commission found sound basis for the complaints i would have the Power to provide for registration of voters and administering elections in order to prevent such denial of voting rights. If supporters of the new com Mission could get anything closet what they Are asking they would be More than glad to see the present civil rights commis Sion expire this year without being extended. The new commission could readily take Over the voting rights fact finding functions of the civil rights commission. Re r of l w of a .fijjit&./%�.,.  drug called effective against athlete s foot Knoxville Tenn. Up the University of Tennessee reported a new Antibiotic Terri Cetin Del i eloped at the University has proved effective in the treatment of ringworm and athlete s foot. Or. D. Frank Holtman head of the University s department of bacteriology said. Several Hundred cases have responded dramatically to the drug in tests the drug is scheduled to go 6.n Sale this fall. V  
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